Organic Farming? First steps...
To Grow or Not To Grow….Organic Farming in Ireland…Step 1: Training
Irish, Ireland
The Black Haired Lass
A poem about love over a pint and a tune..
Drumsnot by Brian O’Rourke
And all around wildlife abounds and leaps and creeps and crawls And prowls and scowls and growls and howls, and fights and bites and bawls....
Music in Drumshanbo
Trad,flutes,fiddles, Up for piddles. Back! Alack A drunken singer is Choking the craic!
Cold Corcaghan
Wasting your time growing Kale in there sonny...
The Burger Mans Daughter
Here I take the form of Austin Clarkes famed poem and give it a dollop of heavily processed tomato ketchup. I've also gone heavy with the onion.
Dublin Rd: July Evening
My reworking of the form of Patrick Kavanaghs great poem, Inniskeen Road: July Evening
The Luckiest Roulette Wheel on Earth…
Its all chips down as quantitative easing kicks in
Column: Let’s stop the blame game about learning Irish
Recognising Ireland’s place in an international context allows us to explore the real reasons for our widespread weakness in learning Irish, as well as foreign languages, writes Dermot McNally.
Column: Pinning hopes on a new political party is ultimately childish
Fresh thinking would be welcome on the political scene – but the reality is it wouldn’t change our situation, writes Dermot McNally
